Support Assistant at BmSS Seatons allé in Lerum

Lerum Municipality is known for its scenic places with lakes and forests. The municipality has 3,200 employees and 43,000 residents but expects to grow significantly in the coming years. Lerum is only a 20-minute commute from Gothenburg and is currently undergoing a development-intensive period with many exciting projects underway, ranging from schools to housing. The municipality works to ensure both good service, high welfare, and a thriving business climate.

Dagens Samhälle has recently named Lerum the winner in the category of metropolitan municipalities (2025) - an award based on a comprehensive comparison of 290 Swedish municipalities in areas such as education, healthcare, economy, culture and leisure, attractiveness, business, and future factors such as digitalization and civil preparedness. We are now a Super Municipality!

At BmSS Seatons allé, adults within the LSS target group reside.

We are now looking for more support assistants for our accommodation in Lerum – a residence near Aspen beach and its scenic location, but also close to Lerum's center. The accommodation consists of 6 apartments with shared spaces. The residence has access to a car, which creates flexibility and accessibility for our tenants.

JOB DESCRIPTION

As a support assistant, you are a key person in our residents' daily lives. You contribute to creating a safe and meaningful environment focused on the individual's needs and conditions. Your work is based on trusting relationships, a professional and pedagogical approach. You actively work with alternative communication based on our residents' needs.

You collaborate closely with colleagues, support pedagogues, coordinators, and unit managers, as well as cooperate with guardians, authorities, and relatives. You are a support person for one or more residents.

Your main tasks:

• Practical support in daily life: cleaning, shopping, cooking, laundry, and personal hygiene
• Create a meaningful, safe, and stimulating daily life based on each individual's needs
• Implement motivating and compensatory measures and social interaction
• Support participation in society, an active leisure time, and help maintain important contacts
• Be responsible for the assigned representative role

As a support person, you are responsible for:

• Establishing and following up on implementation plans
• Summarizing and evaluating measures and goals regularly together with the user
• Being a continuous contact person for the user's network/relatives
• Ensuring that the workgroup has the correct and updated information, routines, and action plans.

The position involves work during days, evenings, every other weekend, and sleeping on-call according to the schedule.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for someone with relevant education for the position, such as a care program or other education and experience that the employer finds equivalent.

It is an advantage if you have previous experience working with the target group within LSS and/or within BmSS.

You have good knowledge of documenting in operational systems and you have a good ability to express yourself both verbally and in writing in Swedish.

It is desirable that you have documented experience of working with clear pedagogical methods, AAC, or similar.

As a person, you are positively inclined towards your assignment, clear in your communication, and a good colleague and team member.

You need to be able to adapt and prioritize work according to the needs of the tenants and the organization.

A driver's license is an advantage.

The position will be filled on the condition that it does not need to be claimed internally.

Desired start date is 2026-03-01 or by agreement.

In this recruitment, we use questions to be answered instead of a personal letter.

Interviews may start during the recruitment period, so do not wait to apply.

Before an employment offer, an acceptable extract from the Police Authority's criminal record must be presented.

OTHER

The development in Lerum Municipality should be sustainable, and our governance is based on the global goals of Agenda 2030.

We believe that our differences enrich and develop the individual, the organization, and society positively. As an employer, Lerum Municipality actively works for gender equality and diversity and against all forms of discrimination and degrading treatment.

We care about a good work environment where you can combine work and leisure. As an employee with us, you will have access to a range of benefits, such as wellness grants and employee welfare programs. Read more about our employee benefits here: https://lerum.se/dina-formaner (https://lerum.se/dina-formaner)

As an employee in Lerum Municipality, there may be a requirement to use personal Bank-ID in the service for legitimization in, for example, system login or other verification.

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process, we ask you to submit your application via this link, and not via email or paper format.

Warm welcome with your application!

In preparation for this recruitment, we have already made decisions regarding the recruitment channels we wish to use. We kindly but firmly request not to be contacted for further offers of competency mediation, advertising, and recruitment assistance.